girt

1
[ gurt ]
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verb
  1. a simple past tense and past participle of gird1.

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Other definitions for girt (2 of 4)

girt2
[ gurt ]

verb (used with object)
  1. an uncommon variant of gird1 (def. 1).

Other definitions for girt (3 of 4)

girt3
[ gurt ]

noun, verb (used with object)
  1. a variant of girth.

Other definitions for girt (4 of 4)

girt4
[ gurt ]

noun
  1. Carpentry.

    • a timber or plate connecting the corner posts of an exterior wooden frame, as a braced frame, at a floor above the ground floor.

    • a heavy beam, as for supporting the ends of rafters.

  2. Printing. (in certain hand presses) one of a pair of leather straps having one end fastened to the bed and the other to the rounce, for drawing the bed under the platen.

Origin of girt

4
First recorded in 1555–65; alteration of girth

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How to use girt in a sentence

  • Nevertheless, he was girt with a sword in a ragged scabbard hanging from a frayed and shabby belt of leather.

    St. Martin's Summer | Rafael Sabatini
  • He wore a gray hermit's cloak, and beneath that a rude, dirty cassock, girt With a cord.

    God Wills It! | William Stearns Davis
  • Rapallo itself, as you find on your first morning, is beautiful, chiefly by reason of its sea-girt tower.

  • When the campaign of 1793 opened she was girt in along her whole frontier by a ring of foes.

  • In Darley church-yard, near Matlock in Derbyshire, is a yew tree, thirty-three feet in girt.

British Dictionary definitions for girt (1 of 2)

girt1

/ (ɡɜːt) /


verb
  1. a past tense and past participle of gird 1

adjective
  1. nautical moored securely to prevent swinging

British Dictionary definitions for girt (2 of 2)

girt2

/ (ɡɜːt) /


verb
  1. (tr) to bind or encircle; gird

  2. to measure the girth of (something)

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